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Ferguson's Precept:
A crisis is when you can't say "let's forget the whole thing."
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Fertility is hereditary. If your parents
didn't have any children, neither will you.
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Fess: Well, you must admit there is something innately humorous about
a man chasing an invention of his own halfway across the galaxy.
Rod: Oh yeah, it's a million yuks, sure. But after all, isn't that the
basic difference between robots and humans?
Fess: What, the ability to form imaginary constructs?
Rod: No, the ability to get hung up on them.
-- Christopher Stasheff, "The Warlock in Spite of Himself"
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
-- Mark Twain
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Fidelity, n:
A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Fifteen men on a dead man's chest,
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest,
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
-- Stevenson, "Treasure Island"
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Fifth Law of Applied Terror:
If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
Corollary:
If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.
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File cabinet:
A four drawer, manually activated trash compactor.
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filibuster, n:
Throwing your wait around.
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Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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